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MY THESIS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
here is the acknowledgement.
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| Chairil Anwar Korompot |
MY THESIS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First of all, I would like to thank my supervisors, Dr. Zifirdaus Adnan
(Pak Zi) and Dr. Elizabeth M. Ellis (Ibu Liz) for their support,
patience, encouragement, and guidance. I cannot thank them enough for
everything both of them have done for me.
For the financial
assistance I was so lucky to receive, I would like to thank the
Indonesian Government for its Dikti Scholarship, the Keith and Dorothy
McKay Scholarship for the fieldwork funding, and Dr. Syahrul Yasin
Limpo, Governor of South Sulawesi Province, for the financial assistance
from his Overseas Doctorate Scholarship Program. My heartfelt gratitude
goes to the School of Arts (SoA) and the School of Behavioural,
Cognitive, and Social Sciences (BCSS) at UNE for the facilities, funding
for conferences, and annual allowances.
I am grateful to the Rector of the State University of Makassar (UNM),
Prof. Dr. Aries Munandar, M.Pd., for granting me study leave. I would
like to thank my friends and colleagues at SoA and BCSS for their
friendship and encouragement all these years. All UNE staff,
particularly Ms. Gill Willis and Ms. Rhonda Brown, have also been very
supportive to me—thanks a lot. Many thanks as well to Ms. Vicki Knox for
her excellent proof-reading.
My very special thanks goes to
the 66 teachers in Makassar, Padang, and Malang, and the 32 key
informants in the three cities and Jakarta for their invaluable
contribution to this project. In particular, I am indebted to Prof. Andi
Qashas Rahman, Prof. Eko Hadi Sujiono, and Pak Iskandar Daeng Ma’kio in
Makassar; Prof. Muhammad Zaim, Ibu Desvalini Anwar, and Dinda Diki
Atmarizon in Padang; Mas Moeh. Arief and Mas Agus Supriyadi in Malang;
and Bang Muhammad Desril in Jakarta. I am also grateful to my colleague
Pak Muh. Hasbi and his CLS-UNM team for helping me with the
transcription of most of the recordings.
A special thanks goes
to Dr. Richard Torbay, NSW State Member of Parliament for the Northern
Tablelands and Chancellor of UNE, for making it possible for my children
to attend local schools—it was like another scholarship for my family.
I am also grateful to my dear friends Ibu Dawn Fletcher, Ibu Leola
Gilliland, Ms. Marie Wall, Mr. Vinko Patelis, and all the Bistro on
Cinders staff (especially Mary, Chéfs Ness and Dave, Paul, Sam, and
Harrison) for their friendship and ongoing support. My English teacher
at SMA Muhammadiyah Kotamobagu, Ibu Rumondor, deserves my big thanks for
the inspiration she gave me over 24 years ago which has led me to the
teaching profession, further studies, the Land Down Under, and this
thesis. Sukur moanto’, enci’.
Last but not least, I thank my
wife and best friend, Mursalina Syamsuddin Gp. (Nina) and our two
daughters, Adelaida and Ginamorinda Korompot for their patience and
support in difficult times. To them I dedicate this thesis first and
foremost. Upoji ki’.
I am grateful to the Rector of the State University of Makassar (UNM), Prof. Dr. Aries Munandar, M.Pd., for granting me study leave. I would like to thank my friends and colleagues at SoA and BCSS for their friendship and encouragement all these years. All UNE staff, particularly Ms. Gill Willis and Ms. Rhonda Brown, have also been very supportive to me—thanks a lot. Many thanks as well to Ms. Vicki Knox for her excellent proof-reading.
My very special thanks goes to the 66 teachers in Makassar, Padang, and Malang, and the 32 key informants in the three cities and Jakarta for their invaluable contribution to this project. In particular, I am indebted to Prof. Andi Qashas Rahman, Prof. Eko Hadi Sujiono, and Pak Iskandar Daeng Ma’kio in Makassar; Prof. Muhammad Zaim, Ibu Desvalini Anwar, and Dinda Diki Atmarizon in Padang; Mas Moeh. Arief and Mas Agus Supriyadi in Malang; and Bang Muhammad Desril in Jakarta. I am also grateful to my colleague Pak Muh. Hasbi and his CLS-UNM team for helping me with the transcription of most of the recordings.
A special thanks goes to Dr. Richard Torbay, NSW State Member of Parliament for the Northern Tablelands and Chancellor of UNE, for making it possible for my children to attend local schools—it was like another scholarship for my family.
I am also grateful to my dear friends Ibu Dawn Fletcher, Ibu Leola Gilliland, Ms. Marie Wall, Mr. Vinko Patelis, and all the Bistro on Cinders staff (especially Mary, Chéfs Ness and Dave, Paul, Sam, and Harrison) for their friendship and ongoing support. My English teacher at SMA Muhammadiyah Kotamobagu, Ibu Rumondor, deserves my big thanks for the inspiration she gave me over 24 years ago which has led me to the teaching profession, further studies, the Land Down Under, and this thesis. Sukur moanto’, enci’.
Last but not least, I thank my wife and best friend, Mursalina Syamsuddin Gp. (Nina) and our two daughters, Adelaida and Ginamorinda Korompot for their patience and support in difficult times. To them I dedicate this thesis first and foremost. Upoji ki’.
